[Medianews] Smartphones Are Spies. Here’s Whom They Report To.

Smartphones Are Spies. Here’s Whom They Report To. The apps and companies profiting from your every movement. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-tracking-smartphone-marketing.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@ets

[Medianews] Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/pasadena-smartphone-spying.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net

[Medianews] Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For

Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For Congress should take bold action to regulate the location data industry. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html ___ Medianews mailing list Median

[Medianews] How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

How Your Phone Betrays Democracy You protest, they watch. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianew

[Medianews] How to Track President Trump

How to Track President Trump Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywa

[Medianews] Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy What we learned from the spy in your pocket. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://etskywa

[Medianews] Twelve Million Americans Were Tracked Through Their Phones

Twelve Million Americans Were Tracked Through Their Phones You might never use yours the same way again. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/opinion/tracking-phone-data.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://etskywarn.net/mail

[Medianews] Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone

Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone Tips to prevent your location from being bought and sold. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-privacy-tips.html ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http:

[Medianews] 8 Things to Know About Our Investigation Into the Location Business

8 Things to Know About Our Investigation Into the Location Business When everyone’s tracked, privacy is a collective concern. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/nyt-cellphone-tracking-investigation.html ___ Medianews mailing list

[Medianews] Verizon Outages Reported Nationwide

Verizon Outages Reported Nationwide Users reported widespread disruptions as they tried to make outgoing calls and text. The company said it had fixed a problem involving long-distance calls to landlines. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/business/verizon-outages.html

[Medianews] How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge

How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge Text messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/technology/sprint-t-mobile-merge

[Medianews] It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html

[Medianews] What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out.

What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out. Our privacy experiment found hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection. Driving surveillance is becoming very hard to avoid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/17/what-does-your-car-know-about-you-w

[Medianews] Trolls turned 911 into a weapon. Now cops are fighting back

Trolls turned 911 into a weapon. Now cops are fighting back Once viewed as a prank, police are now treating 'swatting' as a serious crime that wastes city resources and puts targets' lives at risk. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/trolls-turned-911-weapon-now-cops-are-fighting-back-n1105991